Week 8: Brochure and Logo

This past week was interesting and kept us busy as far as getting content ready. We brainstormed and finalized ideas on what should be put into the brochure for the team to take to Chicago for the Kitchen and Bath show. This was critical because they are looking for sponsors and sources to raise money and the brochure will be their way of getting the buzz out about Solar Decathlon and Team Missouri. I'm pretty excited that we've finally seen some ideas for the logo. Rocket Science came up with some great ideas and we narrowed it down according to what would look good on t-shirts, the website, etc. It was definitely a team project since you need several pairs of eyes to look at an idea and break it down into something concise and usable. So, things are well underway and I think our team has done a great job keeping up with deadlines and really contributing to the team and doing our part of the project.

Week 7: The Competitive Analysis

This week was pretty basic. The thing we're working on for this coming Sunday are our individual analysis of two other Solar Decathlon teams and their websites, etc. This will give up a better comprehensive idea of what the other teams did well on and could have done better with so we can improve things on our end and not make the same mistakes they did. I think this is an extremely critical part to our research because it's important to look at the competition to help evaluate what we need to be working on or fixing. This week has been really crazy for me personally so I'll be rushing to get things done this weekend even though I'll be out of town. So far, we're still invited to go to Chicago for the Kitchen and Bath event with the architecture students as long as they have the money (which they didn't seem too worried about). Either way, we've gathered good content so far and have been making deadlines.
Making good progress.

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Week 6: The 500-word narrative

This week we had our first aspect of the project due. We took all the information we had been gathering over the past few weeks and put together a 500-word narrative about the overall goals of the team's project. It was difficult in some parts because it's tricky to edit something you aren't quite sure what it's saying. The engineering terminology and other aspects of the narrative were a bit lost to us so cleaning up the wording and putting an appealing spin on it proved to be a challenge. We met the internal deadline and final revisions will be made and corrected by the time the official one rolls around. Overall, this week was pretty successful and productive.